A History of Greece
A History of Greece
£59.00
GBPThis book, originally published in 1900, was the major work of the classical historian J. B. Bury. It became a standard textbook on the topic of ancient Greek history to the death of Alexander the Great for almost a century, and in its updated form is still studied today. Bury had studied philosophy as well as classics at Trinity College, Dublin, and had travelled widely in Greece, but until the publication of this work was better known for his two-volume History of the Later Roman Empire (also reissued in this series), and many of his other works also deal with the Byzantine period. He describes in the preface his decision to limit the extent of his history: 'compression into a single volume often produces a more useful book'. This magisterial and very readable synthesis of political and military history encompasses nearly three millennia and the whole of the Mediterranean and Near East.
Product details
March 2015Paperback
9781108082204
952 pages
215 × 140 × 55 mm
1.05kg
200 b/w illus. 17 maps
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introductory
- 1. The beginnings of Greece and the heroic age
- 2. The expansion of Greece
- 3. Growth of Sparta
- 4. The union of Attica and the foundation of the Athenian democracy
- 5. Growth of Athens
- 6. The advance of Persia to the Aegean
- 7. The perils of Greece
- 8. The foundation of the Athenian empire
- 9. The Athenian empire under the guidance of Pericles
- 10. The war of Athens with the Peloponnesians
- 11. The decline and downfall of the Athenian empire
- 12. The Spartan supremacy and the Persian war
- 13. The revival of Athens and her second league
- 14. The hegemony of Thebes
- 15. The Syracusan empire and the struggle with Carthage
- 16. Rise of Macedonia
- 17. The conquest of Persia
- 18. The conquest of the far east
- Chronological table
- Notes and references
- Index.
